Some games from the past play a lot worse in hindsight than others. What recent, decently-liked video games do you expect to suffer this curse?

  • bazingabrain [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Half life Alyx. Hey! wanna play this new and pretty triple A release from gambling addiction magnates and epic gamers of Valve? Guess what fucko, you need to spend your precious money on a big stupid headset, oh yeah you also need a room to play in so you dont trip on the cables or knock your stuff down, you also need to upgrade your puny computer so it can handle the glorious sauce 2 graphics engine with raytracing and real time vertex nipple twister simulations, breathtaking isnt it

    Yeah nah turns out the only breath you'll be taking is right before you puke your guts out since VR is physically impossible to use for a significant amount of people, oh and that shiny headset we recommend for our brand new game? Yeah you need to shell out two months of rent to get one, thats another breath you'll take when the tidy numbers of your bank account turn into a nice fat zero.

    So yeah, that game was a huge grift, and we havent heard a peep from Valve on VR ever since, comforting my opinion that VR as a whole is a stupid and wasteful grift that can't work unless we come up with something like the matrix.

    • GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      imagine they finally release Half-Life 3 for real and it's a fucking VR game

    • red_stapler [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Seated VR stuff like racing or flying games seems to be the real niche for it.

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        My buddy got a deal on a full sim racing setup on Craigslist and holy shit the difference between tv and vr headset is night and day. It's very immersive.

        The one time I tried it for war thunder sim sucked because the resolution was too low to identify friend from foe and made it unplayable.

        I don't own a vr headset, just borrowed them a few times because otherwise its totally not worth it.

        For sim applications, it is game changing though.

    • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Its still the only game I want to play in VR. Some of the other like, gun building type games look fun, but I'm not getting a VR headset until I get my pc upgraded to where I want it, and even then if I do, I'm sure as shit not getting valve's headset for like 1.5k. I considered a meta quest but then I'd be giving zuckerberg money.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      This is true for VR in general. I got caught up in a treat frenzy and splurged on an Oculus Quest 2. Some games were actually fun for a while but after a few months I just returned to playing normal ass video games and now I mostly regret buying the thing.

      Maybe I could see it having some staying power in those places with laser tag and stuff like that where you can actually run around with the headset but honestly I can't see most people justifying the upfront cost for a gimmick.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      VR is the golf of gaming. Needlessly expensive, takes up too much space and resources, exclusionary, and shilled mainly by rich white dudes.

      Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

    • Sinistar
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      5 months ago

      two months of rent

      My Valve Index cost $1000, which is half of what I was paying for rent at the time (and about 1/4 of what I would pay today in the same neighborhood)

    • raven [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      VRchat and gorilla tag are by far the most fun things on VR and are pretty accessible when it comes to processing power actually.

      I find that in VRchat the mic anxiety goes away when you're talking to a 3d model of Dr. Eggman or a Skibidi toilet. Something about the presence I dunno.